The pups get into
it sometimes when Mother’s out.
I get between them.
Kismet
Kismet had red hair
like your hair and, like you, he
liked to stretch awake
Confession
Roy Herndon Smith
We rescued five pups
from a cardboard box lying
in a field beside
a two-lane black-top.
Productivity
Productivity,
signifying nothing,
struts and frets away
February 22, 2018
This muted morning,
a car backs up the hill in
the downhill lane while
February 21, 2018
Peg is better, and
Mary’s gone to work, and I’m
up on the third floor
February 19, 2018
Dawn’s gold washes brick
walls with pink under a thin
cream to grey-blue sky.
